Confronting Managerialism : How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance

1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

About the series; About the authors; Tables and figure; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction

Business school response to major economic eventsThe information technology revolution and business schools; 2

Table 3.1 Units of production - Japanese automobile firms, 2005-2006Table 3.1 Units of production - Japanese automobile firms, 2005-2006; Table 3.2 Japanese auto parts manufacturers in North America; Table 3.2 Japanese auto parts manufacturers in North America; Managerialism in US automobile manufacturing; Figure 3.1 Big Three mass production process - post World War Two; Figure 3.1 Big Three mass production process - post World War Two; The Japanese production system; Table 3.3 Production behavioral values - Big Three and the Toyota Production System

Table 3.3 Production behavioral values - Big Three and the Toyota Production SystemTable 3.4 Comparative performance of major automobile firms, 2006; Table 3.4 Comparative performance of major automobile firms, 2006; The response of US managerialism to the Japanese automobile challenge; German automobile firms' response to the Japanese challenge; Conclusion; 4

Table 4.2 Japanese firms on the 2007 Fortune World 500 listTable 4.2 Japanese firms on the 2007 Fortune World 500 list; US managerialism and finance capitalism; Business schools and the derivatives market; Constructing the vehicle of greed; Denouement; Conclusion

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